/ot/ - Off-topic

>>30436
The original founder was Rozencrab. He spun it off from Desuchan's Yume Nikki board in 2009, two years before he retired. I heard that he originally made Uboachan as a joke, but it caught on way more than he was expecting. Our original software was Rozencrab's modifications to Desuchan's fork of Wakaba.

No idea where he is now. And Desuchan is long gone.

>>30437
Oh wow hai sei. I guess I shoulda said "stepped down" instead of "left" in the OP, tehe
That's fascinating, I never thought Uboa was a spinoff. Do you remember a guy named nekoarc? Or maybe at the time he had an acronymic name that started with a T. Anyhow, wasn't uboa apart of his webring at one point, or hosted by him? (I might be confusing his thing with sovietcat)

>>30437
>Desuchan is long gone
What the hell is desuchan.org then?

>>30439
Yeah I remember nekoarc, but don't know them well. And, maybe? I don't remember.

>>30440
Oh wtf it is realived.

>>30437
Are you the real sei?

>>30443
as far as I can tell, yes.

So is seagul getting replaced as owner or something?

Yes I am the real Sei, I was posting with my regular trip to be polite. No, Bal is not being replaced. I'm still here as a user and as the system administrator, at least until a successor sysadmin is trained, but Bal is the owner and the lead admin and the site policy director. The server and the domain name are owned by Bal.

Who tf is Bal?

>>30447
Seagal, my boss and CEO of Yume Nikki enterprises

>>30437
Did RC also make Desuchan?
Why was Desuchan formed? Is that a spinoff too?

>>30448
>Yume Nikki enterprises
They're finally moving up in the world, good for them!

>>30450
Desuchan is older than my involvement in any of this so I don't know its backstory, except that it was themed around Rozen Maiden. Rozencrab was a mod there iirc but not the owner.

>>30453
How'd you get into modding/operating chans, sei-san? Was uboa your first?

>>30454
I had played a bit with running a board on KusabaX around 2009 or so, but it was just an experiment and no one used it. At the time, KusabaX and Wakaba were the two major competing imageboard software solutions. Around that time I became an admin of an IRC network, and that was where I met SaveTheInternet (STI), who was also an admin. The two of us and a couple other admins left and spun up our own IRC network, and we hung out there a lot while we were all NEETs.

In 2010 or 2011, STI began writing the Tinyboard software which would later become Vichan, the software used by most imageboards nowadays. At the same time, 4chan.org removed the /pol/ and /r9k/ boards, so STI spun up 4chon.net with those two boards and poached the userbases in order to test his new software, a decision which he came to regret much later. I was also a moderator on 4chon.net for a while, and that was my first real imageboard moderator position.

Then in 2011, I was given control of Uboachan.net when Rozencrab retired, and finding the software of the time difficult to maintain, I rebuilt the site using Tinyboard. I somewhat regret this as well, because a lot of the userbase threw up their hands and left when I archived the entire site to rebuild it. Uboachan was Tinyboard's second ever alpha test site. We are now running Vichan.

Then I continued running Uboachan for 14 years before retiring and handing it off to Bal/Seagal.

I remember those old days…

who runs yumebooru? :<

>>30466
Me. What's up?

>>30467
The ink-blue sky~

does anyone know who made yakui.moe that sites been an obsession of mine for 10 years and i coulda swore i first saw it advertised here

>>30468
Oh well. Thought you need, or wanted to ask something.

The sky is, in fact, blue, and mostly clean from the clouds and drones. If only it was a little warmer outside.

>>30471
If you insist.
Why did you start yumebooru? Was its initiation connected to this site at the very beginning?
How'd you get your start at UC?

>>30472

> Why did you start yumebooru?
Because I grew tired of artists deleting their socials, sometimes out of the blue, and making their artworks to be gone forever. I was following one artist in particular (who happened to be japanese btw) on Tumblr. You can currently find their artworks on Yumebooru under "oimo" tag. I've personally witnessed them wiping their socials three times, and coming back shortly afterwards under the same or similar username. Because of that, numerous of awesome artworks of theirs might be gone forever, we'll never know for sure. I'm still blaming myself to this day that I didn't care enough back then to save all of their artworks. And these disappearances has motivated me to preserve as much YNFG artworks as possible, so everyone can still find and enjoy them even after the original artist has gone.

Yumebooru has also helped me to find a new hobby: self-hosting. I always liked tinkering with computers, and I find interesting setting up various services to serve my needs. Basic example: cloud storage. Isn't it awesome to have your own, private, and theoretically limitless cloud storage? And not depending on, let's say, Google, that secretly digs through your, private files? With the only price to pay is electricity bill? I think this is awesome.

Also, fun fact: as of lately, Yumebooru receiving 20-60 new posts per day on average.

> Was its initiation connected to this site at the very beginning?
No, but Seisatsu later told me that before Yumebooru, Uboachan used to have a booru hosted on booru.org network, but that booru got riddled with sketchy ads, abandoned, and later removed from Uboachan's community services. Now, Yumebooru has taken it's place.

> How'd you get your start at UC?
I've been using anonymous imageboards since early 2010's, but my journey on Uboachan starts from rare posts in early 2020's in /yn/. Then I've revived YNFG archive and created a thread about it in /fg/. Since then I'm an active member of the website.

>>30474
>i wanted to disrespect actual talented people

top fucking kek. the samefagging is just the icing on the cake.